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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

one of today's projects...

i finally said goodbye to the circa 1997 floral wall paper in one of our bathrooms. it's so not my style. it took less than an hour to remove it. hurray! and now i'm wondering why it took me 362 days to get around to do this. next to go...the hunter green walls. soon!

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Yes! I admit to having stalked this blog all day waiting for a new entry so that I'm not the 110th comment and get missed :). I've been following your blog for a month or two now, and absolutely love it! It's so inspiring. So inspiring in fact, that I've started my own blog and wanted to let you and your readers know about it! Hopefully you like it and I'd love to get comments and suggestions on my blog, too!

HA! Don't you love inheriting other people's design "style"??? My first house has pepto pink walls *and* ceilings. Not a cool pink, PEPTO pink ~ with pepto pink floral border similiar to yours, but it was up on top of the walls ~ over the whole first floor. YUK!!

It took you 362 days 'cause you were busy quilting! I feel your pain, but you know, you got off easy with only an hour. We stripped wallpaper for 4 hours last weekend -- and it was a small room! Can't wait to see what the new wall will hold!

What have you been doing the last 362 days? Uh...quilting and blogging about it for us? *lol* You know, I've come to learn that whether your house is 5 years old, 15, or 50 years old, you'll always be doing some kind of updating. Ours was built in 2001 and I really want to redo the valances and roman blinds... needs updating, but I cannot commit to anything just yet!

Yikes... I hate that border... but I like the color green but not in bathroom. I can related about taking so long to work on house renovations because it is hard work. Sewing n quilting is easier and cleaner :-) Enjoy redo your bathroom

I can certainly relate to this. My first house was wall paper room after room after bathroom. After spending 2 years of scraping, washing, painting (nice neutral colors) and getting ride of cottage cheese ceiling and gold fixtures (all kind), we divorced and sold the house! Woohoo... LOL I have a nice house now and a wonderful new husband. He loves when I quilt, that give him time to go fishing... or maybe it's the other way... LOLAnyhow, good job!Helene

I would say you were pretty lucky -only an hour to get it off and in a reachable spot so you didn't have to hang off a ladder. Now, the green paint on the other hand might be a different story...prime, prime, prime! :)

Ha ha...our old house had hunter green wallpaper in the kitchen, the entire kitchen even the cabinet bulkhead.....I had to wonder what they were thinking and lucky you...it took us days to get it all off.

Way to go! I have a huge bedroom covered in rose wallpaper that needs to go. The problem is that whenever I have a spare minute I say "quilt or peel wall paper"? Not a hard decision. You know I choose to quilt! ...someday though, my wallpaper has got to go!

My powder room and laundry room had that same stuff when we bought our current house, except the hunter green was wallpaper too and it was directly applied to new dry wall... so primer, no siezing, glued right on it. What a mess!

A couple years ago we stripped kitchen wallpaper and I wondered why it took me so long to do it. I guess we get used to what is in front of us, slightly anyway. Just when we get it all down wallpaper will come back huge.

Wow - you're at your one year mark in your home, huh? My how time flies!It's funny - Barry and I put so much energy into prepping and painting our apartment when we first moved in, but we've done absolutely nothing to it since. There's a towel rack falling off the bathroom wall and a window frame that was replaced that needs to be painted...Good for you for getting to that trim. I wish I had it in me to tackle those little projects.